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MJP: Parting shot all in jest, you understand. The Last Day Of The Pentameter Kid 'Isn't it a lovely day, Mr Fogel?" "Oh yeah, yeah" "What are those lumps on your kepala?' "The buknets from Ward B pummeled me with their iambic tetrameters" "Dont worry, Mr Fogel, we'll see to it...

Funny!! And I don't mean it in a "reverse psychology" sense. Genuinely funny & creative! I'm really enjoying your sardonic humor!! And I appreciate you guys spending all this time & effort on an old fogey whose brain cells are rapidly disappearing without the possibility of regeneration. I...

You hit the HEAD on the NAIL!! Works quite well with stubborn pre-adolescent children, too! They always want to do the opposite of what Mommy and Daddy are telling them. OMG..where did you get my pic??? Yeah, hat's me in the middle. Now I've been exposed as a blatant liar! (as well as a...

Hey chronic:Yes, but I didn't say that I didn't suffer from LWS (last word syndrome). But you can bet the house if the tables were turned and mjp said he would bet that I would respond to HIS last reply..no way in hell. I've got ego..but i'm not a total masochist. I know when to pull in the...

I knew you would respond. Everyone on this post knew. Why? Because you wouldn't be able to sleep or function without throwing your last penny into the fray. " i've been receiving these crazed "Private Messages" clamoring for more founders whilst not saying the most kindest of words about.." Of...

aww..poor baby..gotcha worried for a moment..huh? what happened to the sardonic humor so prevelent just a few replies ago? You sound so serious & somber. Chill Out, man. Now listen, why the hell would I bet you? Use your keppela. Why the hell would I bet when THE RACE IS FIXED. Huh? Being a...

d Gray: You GOT IT, baby! A Found Poem with sardonic humor! You recycled the verbal bullshit of niceguy and juxtoposed it in a surprisingly different way, thus giving the original bullshit sayings of niceguy a new lease on life. As painter Howard Town wrote, "and its marvelous to think of the...

You guys don't get it. They are great FOUND poems--not great poems. For christ sake, they're just a reworking-- usually from a sub-literary source-- a turning of the verbal iambic undertone of formal or neo-formal academic-structured poesy up full volume for a moment, offering a chance to...

I'd like everyone to know that MJP deleted 3 fantastic founders (and he KNOWS they are top-notch and would interest Buk lovers) that I sent to Bukowski who absolutely LOVED them (along with a Bukowski-related Poetry Slam). I was led to believe (and I read in one of MJP posts) that you were...

Wish Me Luck, Mockingbirds Hey, you guys are clever and sardonic! Never knew I had so many profreaders, oops I meant proofreaders (altho the first misspelling might apply) to choose from to help free my Extravagant Absurdities of spelling or syntactical enjambments. Thanks Zazen! Thanks MJP...

MJP: "not that anyone would consider what you posted poetry" Hey, the Buk considered it poetry--an outstanding and amusing found poem. I think everyone on this post will agree that Bukowski might be a little better judge of what constitutes an excellent experimental found poem--than you...

I had a lengthly correspondence with Bukowski in the late 70s /early 80s. At the time, he was already a "legend" and receiving 200 letters on average per week from fans--and detractors. I was one of a handful that he regularly corresponded with--primarily because he knew I was a top-notch horse...

Hello David: Yeah, I'm back-altho don't know for how long as i'm pushing 70 and tired of the whole game. Yeah, I received a response from Mailer to a letter I had written him inquiring if he knew about Bukowski and what he (Mailer) thought of the buk. He wrote a short letter back (which--by the...

The poem from my letter meets my qualifications as to a great buk poem: fluidity, rhythm, great imagery. Perhaps the way I structuraly delineated it caused you to think it was loosely structured, but in the letter it was laid out line for line vertically Here it is again (slanted lines denoting...

I had a lengthly correspondence with Bukowski from the late 70s thru the early 80s (about 30 letters total). I can assure you that in many of the letters bukowski would interject a stream-of-conscious poem that was awesome..he'd be responding to my previous dissertation upon the art of horse...

JM has mellowed over the decades--esp after The Buk dropped his body & moved elsewhere. When I was about to publish my first Checklist in the early 1980s I had contacted Bukowski to ask if he would sign a few copies (25) of "Same Old Thing, Shakespeare Through Mailer" a broadside I had gotten...

Groff & I started collecting Bukowski around the same time (late 1970s). I had a lengthly phone correspondence with Tom between 1978 -1981 re Bukowski items & he seemed like a very nice guy & a serious Buk collector. He also had a correspondence with Bukowski during these years & was able to...

Hello ROC: A crap poem is one that is constipated, doesn't flow with any rhythmic meter, no outstanding metaphors, no moving images (or interesting contrasting images beautifully compressed) no memorable lines, etc. No "days when children say funny & brilliant things / like savages trying to...

Hello Cirerita: I haven't read "The People Look Like ..." so there might be some quality poems in there, esp. if they are from the 1960s when the Buk was at the height of his poetic prowess. But as a general perception, it's the fault of myopic Buk ass-kissing editors that most of his bad...

The superficial appreciation of Bukowski is the result of his last 8 or 10 books - which should never have seen the light of day. Terrible poetry - not even poetry: chopped up "gab" prose. I blame John Martin & the editor of Ecco for allowing these "non poems" to be published. At the twilight...

Thanks all for the kind greetings! Thanks to Crierita who informed me about this great Buk info site. From time to time, I'll try to rack my brain for more stories by or about the Buk to recount & post. I wish I had made copies of my manny letters from the Buk before I sold them to Joe The Pro...

Hello: Buk gave away to friends, poets & critics ALL copies of the 2 Target Offprints. When I was corresponding with him in the early 1980s (I ended up with about 30 letters from the Buk from 1980-82) he informed me he had none of the Targets offprints left. None--also--of any of his early...

Hello: Here's the correct sequence of owner/ changes Re: SIGNATURE 2: I originally purchased this from John William Corrington for $100 in 1980 who received it initially gratis (w/ inscrip.: "to Wm...") from the Buk. I then sold my entire collection (Including Sig 2) to the Mod First Dealer...